With her feature debut, “Honeymoon," co-writer/director Leigh Janiak uncovers a unique corner of a location that passed cliché years ago, and places two characters in the center who draw your empathy rather than mock it. It’s in the performances—Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway as a newlywed couple—a...

Plucked from Britain’s prestigious LAMDA drama school and brought into two of the most acclaimed cable series of the past decade, Rose Leslie has always pursued a unique opportunity rather than a safe bet. “I hope to be doing this for the rest of my life,” the actress explained recently in Los Angel...

At this point you’re not a major festival if you don’t have a portion of your schedule dedicated to genre fare screening at midnight. TIFF has Midnight Madness and SXSW has the Midnighters, the latter of which screened the very creepy and intimate “Honeymoon.” The horror film’s first trailer has arr...

The body-snatching subgenre of horror and science fiction is a particularly pliable one that can serve any number of purposes. This is the genre in which some kind of invading force, usually from beyond the stars, comes to Earth and starts taking over human hosts. It's a profoundly chilling thought:...